Description:
Students will explore collage by cutting and tearing commercially printed and hand-painted papers* to create a collage inspired by their drawings and observations of plant/flower forms.
*Note to teachers: hand-painted papers should be made prior to collage unit. Papers can be made by students who finish lessons early or during a previous painting exploration.
Grade 5 Benchmark:
Students begin sequential unit projects; extend knowledge of art media and compositional and design elements; choose new ways of using familiar tools and materials, and deepen imaginative capacities, observational and expressive skills.
Vocabulary:
shape, free-form, organic, reflection, collage, inspiration, composition, arrangement, challenging, mood, primary, secondary, tertiary, abstract, representational, positive space, negative space, background, actual texture, visual texture, illusion, details, enhance
Originally contributed by:
Ascha Drake